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US pickup truck buyers demanding more luxury
ABC News ^
| October 12, 2017
| Dee-Ann Durbin, Automotive Writer, The Associated Press
Posted on 10/12/2017 1:04:32 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 867V309
You forgot one item:
Make a quality pickup with NO COMPUTER CHIPS IN THEM, AT ALL !
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posted on
10/12/2017 2:45:34 AM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: kearnyirish2
You wouldnt have to worry about me at the Bulge; I wouldnt have fought to relieve the Axis pressure on Stalin.
well, you are a NY/NJ. Not worthy of comment.
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posted on
10/12/2017 2:47:14 AM PDT
by
867V309
(Lock Her Up)
To: 867V309
I’m a Christian who knows that immediately prior to WWI, the left killed THOUSANDS of priests, HUNDREDS of nuns, and a dozen bishops in Spain - and the Western democracies did nothing. Spain was saved by Italy, Germany, and Portugal - “fascists”.
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posted on
10/12/2017 2:52:07 AM PDT
by
kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: 867V309
True dat.
Light, powerful, decent cloth seats, good tires and five on the floor, $25k and they would sell them all day.
That’s what I bought, used of course, and auto transmission, drat.
To: piasa
People are insanely in debt and getting in deeper...
...from the article: But that's what American truck buyers increasingly want, spending an average of $46,844 on a pickup,
seriously? THIS IS FAKE NEWS
I suspect no one regards the intelligence of the average American with greater contempt than I do, but you STILL can't tell me that most people want to pay MORE THAN A YEAR'S INCOME BEFORE TAX on a frikkin' pickup. Even if it has a camera and frikkin' seat warmer.
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posted on
10/12/2017 2:55:25 AM PDT
by
867V309
(Lock Her Up)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Turns out this botch is a
LIAR TOO. Has to be related to Dicky Durbin. Has to be.
To: Fightin Whitey
Sorry the wrong url was picked up.
The story can be seen by googling her name and Newsbusters.
To: kearnyirish2
Im a Christian who knows that immediately prior to WWI, the left killed THOUSANDS of priests, HUNDREDS of nuns, and a dozen bishops in Spain - and the Western democracies did nothing. Spain was saved by Italy, Germany, and Portugal - fascists.
so it would have been better to let them sweep western Europe. You're a communist, right?
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posted on
10/12/2017 2:59:43 AM PDT
by
867V309
(Lock Her Up)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I don’t call these things trucks, I call them princess carriages. I laugh every time I see one in the company parking lot. Nothing like a one ton dually to commute from your suburban home to your desk job.
To: 867V309
The 45 years after the war vindicated all who felt Stalin was the worst threat they faced; western Europe was spared that by the “fascists”. Today I watch the same leftist forces that threatened Europe in the 1920s and 1930s tear down my country; I’m “woke”...
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posted on
10/12/2017 3:34:07 AM PDT
by
kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
10/12/2017 3:37:38 AM PDT
by
Doogle
(( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: 867V309
Agreed add vent windows and offer 4x4 as an option . They wouldn’t be able to keep them in stock.
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posted on
10/12/2017 3:48:28 AM PDT
by
BudgieRamone
(Everybody loves a bonk on the head.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Or are truck manufacturers trying to sell the American public on more options in the hope of making more money off fewer sales...
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posted on
10/12/2017 3:51:41 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
To: hopespringseternal
I live in the city and guys out here lift the trucks to where you need a step ladder to get in them. At 50 to 60K each, offroading is impractical because of the risk of damaging the nice paint.
Most of the new trucks are up so high that it is impractical to load anything in the bed and i'm sure the owners wife lets him know how much she hates his vehicle every time she struggles to climb in.
Automotive companies make the majority of their profits on trucks and the highest profits come from trucks with lots of bling.
A stick will outlast an automatic but its so much easier to drive an automatic with a cup of coffee in your hand.
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posted on
10/12/2017 3:53:34 AM PDT
by
caltaxed
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I purposely picked a 1500 ram for MY comfort. Leg room, comfortable seats. Would have gotten a ram charger or bronco but none of the current SUVs out there have what Im looking for. Most current SUVs are bloated-tick looking AWD estrogen vehicles .
Expedition comes closest but are no longer full F150 frame vehicles. (I wont buy GM or foreign).
Some of the electronic amenities are a bit much to negotiate while driving. But I enjoy the music system and the back up camera is 1 thing I would miss the most.
I rarely use the capped 5 bed. The back of the crew cab has enough room for most of my needs....but its there if I need it. My grown boys borrow it for hauling stuff in the bed.
Again I bought it as a comfortable 4x4 suv not necessarily a truck. I get around 22 mpg on the highway thanks to the multiple displacement hemi. Around town though its butt-awful at around 12.
Would buy it again if I had to. Nice vehicle.
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posted on
10/12/2017 3:54:07 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: kearnyirish2
Well, at the end of the war, the further west the nazis went ultimately determined how far the russians went; we were, in effect, confronting both.
So, your snowflake attitude about not contributing to the Bulge war effort contradicts your puffed-up anti-communist rhetoric.
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posted on
10/12/2017 3:55:35 AM PDT
by
867V309
(Lock Her Up)
To: 867V309
I sold Ford for 18 months and 46k is the average.
I sold customers who wanted certain features sand colors in their truck and would wait 90 days for it to arrive from the factory.
I would trade dealers trucks we had to obtain a truck the customer wanted. Some trucks would come from 500 to as ffar as 1,000 miles away.
Ford is the #1 sell8ng truck 40 years in a row and people will spend $60,000 all day long.
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posted on
10/12/2017 4:01:51 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
To: caltaxed
My truck is stock hight 4x4. Im 61 but the 56 wife had a problem. So I got retractable running boards for her. Which some of my more diminutive hunting buddies appreciate too. As Im getting on in age, the luxury of it is not unwanted
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posted on
10/12/2017 4:02:24 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Vendome
I sold Ford for 18 months and 46k is the average.
Good for you.
And congrats to all those who are upside-down on their payments or rentals.
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posted on
10/12/2017 4:05:27 AM PDT
by
867V309
(Lock Her Up)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Not me. I want hand-cranked windows and a manual transmission.
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posted on
10/12/2017 4:09:02 AM PDT
by
GingisK
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